STUDIO SESSION (January 2025) with Julia Schuster

Birth & Feminist Imagination

Birth might be the most important, mysterious and sacred of life events. This studio session, led by Julia Schuster—an artist and recently trained doula (non-medical birth companion)—explores the parallels between making with clay and the intimate, hands-on care provided during the birthing process.

A doula’s role is to provide continuous support during pregnancy and the postpartum period, so as to empower the birthing person and actively reduce the risk of a traumatic birth experience. Much like clay, our bodies are simultaneously fragile and resilient, capable of change and endowed with memory. What can we as makers in tactile dialogue with clay learn from the path of the doula and the process of birth? How can we listen, feel, be gentle, and be radically committed?

This session is scheduled in 2025 for Sundays January 5, 12, 19, and 26 from 9-11am PST (that’s Los Angeles time).

Registration is $250 and includes all four sessions.

Participants gather via Zoom.

More details can be found here.